Re: Notifications for build & release issues: gnome-control-center

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 10/21/06, Thomas Wood <thos gnome org> wrote:
> I think information about which dependencies are mandatory and which are
>   optional would be very helpful. Optional dependencies are probably
> even more important, as they are the hardest to discover.
>
> There's a lot of good information in the releng directory, but I doubt
> people know about it. We need a system to generate some nice html pages
> for each release detailing all of the above information in a nice
> readable format. Did anyone ever have anything to do something like this?

Nope, it's never been created.  Would you like to work on something
like that?  The optional dependencies make sense as well, though you
won't find all the information you need for that in the jhbuild
modulesets (e.g. existing optional dependencies on beagle by modules
such as nautilus and yelp)